iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

Long ago I promised myself I’d blog about <a href=”evernote.com”>Evernote</a&gt; when I made more than 1000 notes. I broke that record on Friday November 9, 2012 so here’s a quick summary of what Evernote is and what I use it for. Evernote is intended to help people remember everything. While I haven’t achieved that, I’m… Continue Reading Me and Evernote

Six months ago I ordered the Code Babies book Web Design for Babies (Vol. 1) . I took a while for it to arrive as PayPal passed on an old address and I failed to catch it, but after a number of months both ends figured it out and then package arrived. Code Babies were… Continue Reading Code Babies – HTML for Babies

A recent article in the Columbia Journalism Review by Matthieu Aikins underscored the need to protect the contents of your smartphone. If the potential to have your own information stollen or generally snooped through your stuff, please consider this story. The British journalist and filmmaker Sean McAllister was in Syriashooting a documentary for Britain’s Channel… Continue Reading If My Contact Is On Your Phone, Please Protect It

The BlackBerry Playbook coming out on April 19th has some familiar plays in it – if you grew-up in Ontario: RIM is a Waterloo-based company RIM is/was known for their trackball The device is running the QNX operating system, developed by Waterloo/Ottawa-based QNX Software Systems (which RIM just bought) The screen and input device is… Continue Reading BlackBerry Playbook

If you use a Mac, and you haven’t had a chance to install it yet, I’d like to recommend AppleJack. AppleJack is a free open source tool that automates the basic UNIX tools are a few other basic maintenance tasks for OSX. All things someone comfortable with the command line could do themselves, but AppleJack… Continue Reading AppleJack free disk maintenance tool for OSX